Scales of Production

What scale of production is used in the manufacture of paper?

• One off

• Batch

• Mass

• Continuous

What scale of production is used in the manufacture of soft drinks?

• Continuous

• Batch

• Mass

• JIT

What scale of production is used in the manufacture of books?

• JIT

• Mass

• Batch

• One off

Sometimes called custom production it is dependent upon highly skilled workers who are able to take on a number of tasks and build a product to a customer’s exact needs.

• One off

• Batch

• Mass

• JIT

This involves manufacturing a number of identical products, usually by workers who take on more specialised roles.

• One off

• Batch

• Mass

• Continuous

Batches might be as small as a handful and as large as several thousand

• True

• False

Workers are often less skilled as there is usually more reliance upon machinery set up to do a single task at each stage.

• Batch

• Mass

• JIT

• Continuous

With this scale of production it is usual for the products to move along a production line as it is a very efficient way of making products in a short period of time.

• Mass

• Batch

• One off

• Continuous

What scale of production is used in the manufacture of cars?

• Mass

• Batch

• One off

• Continuous

This is where the number of products required is so huge that the production line needs to run day and night.

• Mass

• JIT

• Continuous

• Batch